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The present application, filed on or after March 16, 2013, is being examined under the first inventor to file provisions of the AIA .
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Claim Rejections - 35 USC § 103
This application currently names joint inventors. In considering patentability of the claims the examiner presumes that the subject matter of the various claims was commonly owned as of the effective filing date of the claimed invention(s) absent any evidence to the contrary. Applicant is advised of the obligation under 37 CFR 1.56 to point out the inventor and effective filing dates of each claim that was not commonly owned as of the effective filing date of the later invention in order for the examiner to consider the applicability of 35 U.S.C. 102(b)(2)(C) for any potential 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) prior art against the later invention.
The following is a quotation of 35 U.S.C. 103 which forms the basis for all obviousness rejections set forth in this Office action:
A patent for a claimed invention may not be obtained, notwithstanding that the claimed invention is not identically disclosed as set forth in section 102 of this title, if the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective filing date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the claimed invention pertains. Patentability shall not be negated by the manner in which the invention was made.
The factual inquiries set forth in Graham v. John Deere Co., 383 U.S. 1, 148 USPQ 459 (1966), that are applied for establishing a background for determining obviousness under 35 U.S.C. 103 are summarized as follows:
1. Determining the scope and contents of the prior art.
2. Ascertaining the differences between the prior art and the claims at issue.
3. Resolving the level of ordinary skill in the pertinent art.
4. Considering objective evidence present in the application indicating obviousness or nonobviousness.
Claims 1-20 are rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as being unpatentable over Huang et al., U.S. Pub No: US 20110197200 A1 (Hereinafter “Huang”) in view of Wailes et al., U.S. Pub No: US 20070088897 A1 (Hereinafter “Wailes”).
Regarding claim 1, Huang discloses A location set generation method, applied to an electronic device, the method comprising:
determining location set source information in response to a trigger operation on a location set creation entry on an application program interface (see paragraph [0020, 0042-0043, 0053], wherein obtaining location information source after user interaction with content and API calls, the API constitutes the claimed application program interface trigger);
extracting location information from the location set source information, and generating, by using the extracted location information, a location information set associated with the location set source information (see paragraph [0020, 0042-0043, 0048, 0053], wherein the parsing corresponds to the extraction as claimed. Once multiple decoded locations are obtained, they are supplied to the mapping application as a collection of locations associated with the originated content);
displaying a map interface (see for example fig.4), wherein the map interface comprises a map information (see for example fig.4 which illustrate a display screen showing a list of search results alongside a map); and
displaying, in the map information (see paragraph [0078-0079] and fig.9, where for example fig.9 which illustrate a display screen showing a list of search results alongside a map).
Although it’s obvious to conclude, based on fig.9 of Huang, that the list result display (item 904) can be the set information region and the result map (item 902) can be the map information region, the examiner is introducing a secondary reference “Wailes” to clarify the record.
Wailes discloses, in paragraph [0024-0025], a map view which corresponds to the map information region and a list view which corresponds to set information region
It would have been obvious to one of ordinary skill in the art, before the effective filing date of the claimed invention, to modify the system of Huang to multiple regions, as taught by Wailes, because the system would improve search results and user experience (Wailes; paragraphs [0004]).
Regarding claim 2-14, Huang in view of Wailes further disclose:
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the application program interface comprises a location editing interface; and the determining location set source information in response to a trigger operation on a location set creation entry on an application program interface comprises (Wailes, see paragraph [0033], wherein the system allowing the user to input an address/location (editing interface) ):
displaying an information type selection region on the location editing interface in response to the trigger operation on the location set creation entry on the location editing interface, and displaying at least two information type identifiers in the information type selection region (Wailes, see paragraph [0033] and fig.8a-8c);
displaying an information input interface corresponding to a target type identifier in response to a selection operation on the target type identifier in the at least two information type identifiers (Wailes, see paragraph [0033] and fig.8a-8c); and
determining input information on the information input interface as the location set source information in response to a trigger operation on an end input identifier on the information input interface (Wailes, see paragraph [0033, 0037] and fig.8a-8c).
3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the target type identifier comprises a text type identifier, the information input interface comprises a text editing interface, and the input information comprises text information (Wailes, see paragraph [0033] and fig.8a-8c); and the determining input information on the information input interface as the location set source information in response to a trigger operation on an end input identifier on the information input interface comprises: determining the text information on the text editing interface as the location set source information in response to the trigger operation on the end input identifier on the text editing interface (Wailes, see paragraph [0033] and fig.8a-8c).
4. The method according to claim 2, wherein the target type identifier comprises an image type identifier, the information input interface comprises an image upload interface, and the input information comprises image information (Huang, see paragraph [0036]); and
the determining input information on the information input interface as the location set source information in response to a trigger operation on an end input identifier on the information input interface comprises: determining the image information on the image upload interface as the location set source information in response to the trigger operation on the end input identifier in the image upload interface (Huang, see paragraph [0036]).
5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:
displaying the location editing interface in response to a trigger operation on a set editing identifier on the map interface, and displaying the location set creation entry on the location editing interface (Wailes, see paragraph [0027-0028]).
6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the application program interface comprises an information display interface (Huang, see for example fig.4 which illustrate a display screen showing a list of search results alongside a map. See also Wailes paragraph [0033] and fig.8a-8c); and the determining location set source information in response to a trigger operation on a location set creation entry on an application program interface comprises: determining display information on the information display interface as the location set source information in response to the trigger operation on the location set creation entry on the information display interface (Wailes, see paragraph [0033] and fig.8a-8c).
7. The method according to claim 6, further comprising:
displaying at least one candidate application identifier on the information display interface in response to an editing operation on the display information on the information display interface Wailes, see paragraph [0033], wherein the system allowing the user to input an address/location (editing interface) ); and
displaying, on the information display interface, at least one editing function entry corresponding to a map application identifier in response to a selection operation on the map application identifier in the at least one candidate application identifier, wherein the at least one editing function identifier comprises the location set creation entry (Huang, see for example fig.4 which illustrate a display screen showing a list of search results alongside a map. See also Wailes paragraph [0033] and fig.8a-8c).
8. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:
displaying an information editing window corresponding to a target location in response to a trigger operation on an information editing identifier of the target location in the location information set, wherein the information editing window comprises at least one information editing option (Huang, see for example fig.4 which illustrate a display screen showing a list of search results alongside a map. See also Wailes paragraph [0033] and fig.8a-8c);
performing editing processing corresponding to a target editing option on the target location in response to a selection operation on the target editing option in the at least one information editing option (Huang, see for example fig.4, 9 which illustrate a display screen showing a list of search results alongside a map. See also Wailes paragraph [0033] and fig.8a-8c); and
updating the location information set by using the edited target location, and displaying the updated location information set in the set information region (Huang, see for example fig.4 which illustrate a display screen showing a list of search results alongside a map. See also Wailes paragraph [0033] and fig.8a-8c).
9. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:
displaying a proofreading preview window on the map interface in response to a trigger operation on an information proofreading identifier in the set information region (Huang, see paragraph [0075, 0079] and fig.8, wherein item 806 corresponds for example to the proofreading preview window); and
displaying the location set source information in the proofreading preview window (Huang, see paragraph [0075, 0079] and fig.8).
10. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:
displaying a theme input region corresponding to the location information set in response to a trigger operation on a theme editing identifier corresponding to the location information set on the map interface (See Wailes paragraph [0033]); and
determining input information obtained from the theme input region as theme information of the location information set, and correspondingly storing the theme information and the location information set (See Wailes paragraph [0033]).
11. The method according to claim 10, further comprising:
obtaining a plurality of location information sets corresponding to a plurality of pieces of theme information in response to a trigger operation on a theme integration identifier on the map interface (See Wailes paragraph [0033]);
performing set recombination on the plurality of location information sets, to obtain an integrated information set of the plurality of location information sets (See Wailes paragraph [0033]); and
displaying the integrated information set in the set information region of the map interface (See Wailes paragraph [0033]).
12. The method according to claim 11, wherein the performing set recombination on the plurality of location information sets, to obtain an integrated information set of the plurality of location information sets comprises:
performing merging processing on the plurality of location information sets, to obtain the integrated information set of the plurality of location information sets; or performing intersection calculating processing on the plurality of location information sets, to obtain the integrated information set of the plurality of location information sets; or performing deduplication processing on the plurality of location information sets, to obtain the integrated information set of the plurality of location information sets (See Wailes paragraph [0033]).
13. The method according to claim 1, wherein the location set source information comprises image information; and the extracting location information from the location set source information is implemented by performing the following processing:
performing text extraction on the image information to obtain extracted text, and identifying a plurality of candidate locations from the extracted text (See Huang paragraph [0036]); and
screening the plurality of candidate locations to obtain the location information (See Huang paragraph [0036]).
14. The method according to claim 13, wherein the screening the plurality of candidate locations to obtain the location information comprises:
screening candidate locations that are in a same geographical range in the plurality of candidate locations, to obtain the location information; or screening a candidate location whose confidence is higher than a confidence threshold in the plurality of candidate locations, to obtain the location information (See Huang paragraph [0036]. See also Wailes paragraph [0031]).
Claims 15-19 are rejected under the same rationale as claims 2-5.
Claim 1 is rejected under the same rationale as claim 1.
Conclusion
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/MAHER N ALGIBHAH/Primary Examiner , Art Unit 2165
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